Megoreodon

Megoreodon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PromerycochoerinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Merycoidodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29.5 Mya and 18.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 12 of 17 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 17 occurrencesMiocene30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30 Mya18 Mya

17 occurrences of Megoreodon on record, most of them in the Oligocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

17 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

8 formations

Gering — 43.00°N, 104.50°WGering — 41.70°N, 103.10°WGering — 41.80°N, 103.80°WHarrison — 42.00°N, 104.20°WHarrison — 42.40°N, 103.80°WRenova — 46.40°N, 112.80°WRenova — 46.65°N, 113.05°WPeterson Creek Beds — 45.00°N, 113.60°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WTurtle Butte — 43.07°N, 99.83°WSandstone of Inman Ranch — 33.34°N, 107.94°WRosebud — 43.18°N, 102.30°W

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The named rock units Megoreodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megoreodon and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Megoreodon and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

108 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Megoreodon, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

11 references

Each of the 17 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Megoreodon

Credit
Internet Archive Book Images
Licence
No restrictions
Commercial use
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Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Megoreodon grandis · cm:vertpaleo:990

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPromerycochoerinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schultz and Falkenbach 1954